Saturday, June 14, 2008

Directions vs Ingredients



I've received an email titled ... "BERHATI2 - TOM YAM SET MENGANDUNGI BAHAN BABI (PORKCRACKLING) DIJUAL DISUPERMARKET" . I bet some of you have also received similar emails.
With the email there are a few photos of the package. The email infer that this brand got "pork" as the ingredients.

While I wanted to believe that the originator of the email has only good intention to "warn" others, i do feel the obligation to correct what is wrong because if it's not corrected it can fall under fitnah, and for some of us who "happily forwarding" this email without bothering to validate, we can be part of the fitnah contributor. As muslim we should not exercise fitnah to anyone, irregardless of the other party belief, be it religion, politic or even other life preferences.

Rusiah, one of my observant neighbour has pointed out the mis-interpretation. If you care to validate information, do spend time to actually zoom and read carefully ...

The word "pork cracklings" is listed under the Directions and NOT Ingredients. Therefore, it can be concluded that the tomyam paste is pork free.

My londong speaking is not that excellent, but enough to understand the difference between Directions and Ingredients.

All said and done, I do not personally use this "MAE PRANOM" brand and have not seen one in my neighbourhood shops that i frequented.

Jangan terkeliru !

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